Journey of the Elementals RP (Pm if Interested, Started)

[UnusualStranger]

Seth paused in, turning slightly to see the Nightshade out of the corner of his eye. He had done enough dealings with them to know somewhat how they preferred to keep to themselves, and that business should be kept simple.

"That would largely depend on how well you can do combat, Miss. I am Seth, an adept if you couldn't guess it, and I will turn my battleground into ashes. What are you going to offer me that the other pyromancer will not?" Seth said, falling into some very old habits of business.

"Because I know that one over there won't hesitate to set fire to things, and be very open about his assault. So, it ultimately comes down to will it be me and you fighting, or just me fighting with you watching? Because as much fun as THAT sounds, I would like to know that when two hydromancers think they can put me out I have someone watching my back."

Now this could be interesting. Fighting with a Nightshade. One I haven't seen before, but then I don't think I can claim to have seen many of them.

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The cloaked fellow that Aden had proceeded to follow proceeded onward, looking about as if somewhat lost as to where they were going. However, as he arrived at the Library, they seemed to be reaffirmed to where they were going, and paused for a moment, looking about. In that quick instant, they seemed to have spotted Aden who was walking towards them, and almost seemed to predict what was going to happen if he got close. However, it seemed certain they were trained for the situation, and quickly stepped into the library, not even bothering to hide their movements now. They quickly stepped into one of the aisles of books, just trying to stay out of the plain sight of their now aware pursuer.

The other cloaked wanderer proceeded down the way, and seemed to spot nothing that interested them as they did so. They looked about for a moment, glancing over the infirmary and caverns, and then proceeded back to where they had initially been. They did not seem to pause or wait for anything, only to look about for a moment taking in everything around himself before moving onward.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Aden stepped into the library and glanced around. Hide and Seek. Lovely. He turned and closed the door into the library behind him and pressed his hand into the knob, heating it to a glowing intensity. He wouldn't be leaving this way without screaming in agony. Aden turned towards the aisles.

"If you come out now and stop giving me trouble, I won't harm you." Now, Marcus on the other hand... Aden turned and looked at the librarian. "Someone came in here a few moments before me. He's an intruder. Did you see where he went? He needs to be apprehended."

 

[NeoAC]

Raven wasn't expecting a grill session. I guess it makes sense. Pyro's are always fighting someone or something. But I haven't really fought anyone before. There's never been any point in the classes, it's just been one sneakfest after the other. I guess that could work though.

Raven tilted her head forward allowing her hood to slide a little farther over her face, almost completely obscuring it. "Well, I may only be a Mage at the moment but I can assure you, if we were to face two Hydromancers in this contest, they would not see me coming. Nobody sees me coming." Cause no one ever pays attention to me. Can't spot what you don't care about. Still I need this guy to team up. I need that Adept slot, start learning some of the good stuff. Phasing through shadows and all that. "Besides, do you believe two Pyromancers would be a good idea against two Hydromancers? At least by partnering with me, you get a little variety in the available techniques."

 

[UnusualStranger]

The librarian looked at Aden somewhat confused.

"An intruder? I saw a fellow wearing a cloak enter, but figured it was one of the guests. Went 4 aisles down, but I doubt he simply stuck to there if he is being hunted like you said. Guess I'll be watching the entrance a little more closely...." The librarian said with a sigh, standing up to get around the desk and in front of the doors.

"What did they do? Or are you just looking to beat the hell out of some student who is trying to hide from you?"

The second one, meanwhile, had made his way back, and upon not seeing what he thought he would, proceeded up the right side now to see what was going on over there. Obviously his purpose had become much more apparent as he seemed to step somewhat faster now. He came upon the library much faster, only to find Aden and the Librarian standing up. The cloaked man turned, now heading to the Nightshade area.

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Seth grinned, noting that the Nightshade did as they usually did. Try to hide what they were, who they were, and what they were doing.

"Alright, so you claim to be a variety. And a mage, which isn't half bad. And I think you underestimate the power of some good fire, as I can hold my own against them, I just need someone competent who can do the same." Seth said with a wild look in his eyes. It faded slightly as he paused to look over the nightshade in front of him.

"However, I really don't need anything from the tournament. I don't much care for ranking up in the group, nor any of the rewards that interest me. I'm doing well enough, so I guess I can go along with you. Again, I am Seth, and you are....?"

Lets see if this Nightshade is worth the fight or will I just be waiting for the shadow to move for once.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

"Whoever he is, he's not supposed to be here. Once I get my hands on him, I'll know more. Watch the door." Aden set his cloak down, momentarily regretting not being one of the type who trained in physical weapons in addition to magical abilities. It would make this so much simpler. He began to walk down the aisles, keeping a careful ear and a watchful eye.

 

[NeoAC]

"Raven," came the reply. "Just call me Raven." No need to get to formal. This probably only a temporary partnership. He's not even looking to try in this thing. We'll probably get knocked out in the first round and then that'll be that. Put myself out there for nothing. Get laughed as as I get carted off the battlefield. Great.

"It's what I go by amongst the Nightshades so it's what you can call me as well." Her voice didn't deviate from the low monotone she had set. It didn't sounds natural for her to be talking like that and it wasn't. She tried to match the darker tones she projected with her looks, but the fact of the matter was she couldn't go all that low in scale. So she relied more on the unwavering tone to convey any kind of menace. Whether or not it worked was unknown.

 

[Xero Scythe]

Grana didn't quite hear Seth despite the yelling, as his ears were still ringing from the Geobear's roar. This didn't stop him from cursing under his breath as he realized some Nightshade had already beaten him to the punch. "Godsdamn son of a-" Grana started to rant to himself, before he realized he was speaking far louder than normal due to his temporary hearing problems. Grana waited a few minutes for his ears to stop ringing, then tried again. "Sorry 'bout that. I had a run-in with some of the local wildlife on cleanup duty, and it could roar. Anyway, good luck." Grana clapped his hand down on Seth's shoulder before moving on. "Well, way to look cool, Grana. One problem: you still don't have a partner! Where the hell are you gonna fond a partner at the 11th hou-"

Grana stopped dead and smiled from ear to ear. He began to sprint forward and thanked whatever stars he was born under as he saw his old friend Amuro. Amuro had been picked to be an Airshifter at age 9, but the two had been dear friends before that. When Grana was found to be be a Pyromancer, no one was more happy than Amuro. Even though Amuro was the higher class as an Adept, he still deferred to Grana as the latter was still a year older. "Amuro! So glad to see you! Are you entering the tournament?" Amuro nodded. "Yeah, I just need to find a godsdamn partner because of Master Marcus's stupid rule." Grana grinned deviously as he threw his arm around his friend's shoulders. "Look no further, because you 'n I are gonna go all the way to the top!" Amuro smiled right back. Grana went on. "You sign us up- I need to go get a few things first." The two separated, and Grana walked over to the concessions. "One jug worth of whatever's most alcoholic here." Grana grabbed the large jug and paid for it as he saw a man sitting with a frozen jug in his lap. Grana raised an eyebrow. "Y'know those aren't supposed to freeze, right? Do ya need help?" Grana snapped his fingers and a small flame appeared upon his thumb.

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

After briefly turning towards Marcus to listen to his second announcement, Nydia turned back to Cale to see if he wanted to fight now or later. "Well Cale? Would you like to go now or shall we wait a bit? I'm fine either way but if you want to fight now we should hurry before the arenas fill up."

As she spoke, she spotted Seth out of the corner of her eye with a Nightshade by the looks of it. Oh my... I hope I don't have to fight Seth. He's probably much more experienced than I am in battle. And it would be a little awkward. But with Cale on my side I don't think I have much to worry about.

 

[UnusualStranger]

The Librarian nodded, and kept his spot at the door, keeping a small ball of light in his hand prepared. While he wasn't exactly a fighter, the librarian was confident enough that he could hold one other from getting past him.

As Aden stepped along, he found the cloak sitting on the floor. It was just like the one that the fellow before had been wearing. Which meant he had ditched the robes. There was then a huge crash as suddenly the individual darted from another aisle, grabbed a chair, and whipped it through a window in one swift motion. The mechanical arms were quite apparent as he did so, and then proceeded to make a dead sprint for his new exit, the metal attachments to his legs also now showing.

Meanwhile, the other cloaked individual outside heard the commotion, and proceeded to the back where the window had been smashed open.

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"HAH! So, you actually going to stick around? Impressive! That usually ditches most Nightshades." Seth said with a loud laugh. It wasn't often he ran into a Nightshade who actually thought he was worth the risk after he said how little he cared.

"Alright Raven, I sure hope you can speak louder than that when we are fighting, because if I have to listen for your monotone whispers to get anything, you will not be getting defended by me, cause I won't know you need it! Nice to meet ya, and I hope you got some fire in ya somewhere, cause being calm is great and all when you can afford it, but in battle, you just have to rage like a wildfire."

The fires seemed to return to Seth's eyes again as he grinned. It was obvious that he was enjoying today, even with all the messiness that came with the battle. As he took a look around, he spotted Nydia, who apparently was going to be coming along as well. He waved, not sure if she had seen him or not.

Hah! I swear, today is going to be alright. I mean, good duel, different partners, might even see how Miss Nydia can handle herself....going to be interesting...

 

[NeoAC]

Underneath her hood, Raven raised an eyebrow. Stick around? Of course I'm going to stick around. What do I care? I've got nothing to lose here. Just another round of laughter in my direction if we lose. Whatever. The sheep can have their meager entertainment if I fall. I'll be laughing at them in the end.

"Oh believe me," she told her new partner. "When the time comes, I will be heard. But when our opponents fall, their cries will be silent." Yeah that sounds pretty deep. How am I going to back this up though?

She glanced over and saw another woman looking at them, and judging from the robes she was wearing, she was one of them. A goody-goody. A Lightdweller. She turned her gaze. Ugh, lousy Light people. Always so happy and smiling and eager to heal people. No thank you.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Aden took off at a sprint towards the crash, getting a look at the fleeing target as he did so. Whatever it was, it was likely that those metal implants would allow him to easily outrun Aden. No choice, he had to take the risk. He raises his hands, streams of fire shooting out at the window, filling it with flames.

 

[UnusualStranger]

Seth couldn't help but start laughing again at his Nightshade partner. He imagined she didn't know a single thing about combat, and wondered if she even knew what to do if she ran into an offense Lightdweller. Leaving the thoughts aside for the moment, he proceeded to one of the odd....squares that seemed to be made for the fighters to enter, letting Raven do whatever she wished to prepare for combat. With a grin, Seth simply walked in, seeing another team of Earthshapers already prepared. One of them seemed to point at him, and then covered himself in the rocky earth around himself, and pointed towards Seth. Seth grinned, let the flames billow around his arm, and pointed right back.

Oh yes, I am going to show you that rock won't save you from me.

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Marcus shook his head as he saw a few students grumbling as they went to work together. It was annoying how the students still tried to keep to themselves even when they were being pushed together. If he didn't know any better, no matter what the age or skill, it seemed he was always dealing with children. Always.

"Get to your chosen Arena's if you want to start participating! I'm not here to babysit you lot! You are damned old enough to feed and clothe yourselves, so you should be old enough to get in order!" Marcus shouted once more, tired of the students questioning him on where to go.

"AND I KNOW YOU CAN COUNT, SO IF YOU SEE TOO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE, GO TO ANOTHER! IF THEY ARE ALL FULL, WAIT!"

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The flames of Aden flew through the air, their focus being primarily the metal man who was now leaping through the window. The flames seemed to catch the man somewhat has he flew through the air, jumping out the window with the flames catching a few parts of him on fire as he hit the ground rolling. The man seemed to make no noise as the flames had struck him, nor did he make any as he rolled into the ground. He rose, somewhat slower, looking about himself as he did so as if looking to see if he had gotten dusty, and then began walking away from the broken glass. His partner, who was walking down the alley, nodded as they saw the man stepping away, and kept moving past them to where the window had been shattered.

The librarian, meanwhile, let out a huge sigh of relief as he noted the flames had not managed to catch the entire library on fire.

"YOU ARE GODDAMNED LUCKY! Those books had caught fire, you would have been likely DROWNED for destroying so much to just catch ONE FELLOW." The librarian was quite irate, quickly walking over to the books double checking that the few scorch marks on the surface were only that of the flames that had been leaping from Aden a moment before.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Aden ignored the librarian and ran to the window, climbing up as quickly as he could to continue his pursuit. He dropped down and raised his hands, plumes of flame wreathing his hands, and shouted. "If you do not halt, I will kill you!"

 

[blaze96]

"Well then I guess it is time to start the fights. Great, a bunch of people getting injured for a spectacle." Alexander said to himself as he walked over to the infirmary area and said hello to those he would be working with. He quickly found an Earthshaper to work with and began to monitor the arena.

Good to know the master is in a good mood. More like a drill sergeant than a teacher. He thought with a slight chuckle.[/i]

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

Nydia saw Seth wave to her, and smiled and waved back. She thought of going over to saw hello.... until she saw the particularly nasty look his Nightshade companion gave her before quickly turning away. On second thought, I don't think I'd be particularly welcome with her over there. Instead she waved some more and shouted to the two of them as they headed for an arena. "Good luck, you two!!"

Then she made her way towards a different arena and entered cautiously, making sure it wasn't full before turning back towards her partner. "Looks like this one has room for us if you're ready, Cale!"

 

[Mr.Ivebeenframed]

"Let's go then!" Cale said eagerly to Nydia. Cale got himself excited for the event and as he followed her into the arena. Cale looked around the arena they would be fighting in and it looked bare except for the occasional rock and small body of water which looked to be for the Hydromancers if they had any. Cale felt the earth beneath his feet and felt at home.

"You ready, Nydia?"

 

[UnusualStranger]

The man without the cloak turned the corner, seeming to ignore Aden's threat, while the other stranger turned around the corner with his cloak still on. As he approached Aden with his flames billowing about, he raised his metal arm. It seemed to unfold multiple metal strips, clicking together to form a decent sized shield from his arm. His other hand at around the same time tossed a small ball which began to spray out smoke.

The other uncloaked fellow continued his stroll, leaving his partner to deal with the Firestarter, only to see another obstacle. Aaron had been following the individuals as he noted them before entering the arena, and followed the one which had gone left instead of right. He now stood in the alley, in the direct path of the second infiltrator, and drew his blade.

"You are not going anywhere." Aaron said, watching as his opponent rose his arms, the metal flaps of his arm sliding forward to form a blade of their own.

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Seeing that the arenas had been filled to a decent size, Marcus nodded to each of the weavers in charge of watching each particular arena. With that, they announced the battles were to begin. With that, each arena quickly started to erupt into combat between the many individuals.

For Nydia and Cale, there were the teams of Pyromancers, a team of Earthshaper and Hydromancer, and finally a team of Airshifter and Lightdweller.

For Fei and Drew, there was a team of Pyromancer and Earthshaper, duel wielding Airshifter/Hydromancer and Earthshaper, and an earthshaper and Nightshade.

Then, for Grana and Amuro, there were a pair of Lightdwellers, a pyromancer and Hydromancer, and an Earthshaper and Airshifter.

Finally, for Seth and Raven, there were two Earthshapers, Airshifter and Hydromancer, and Pyromancer and Lightdweller.

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The second that the announcement was made, Seth let the flames envelop himself much like the Earthshaper armor, and charged after him. While it was a free for all against the teams, none seemed to want to get between the two as the Earthshaper charged at Seth as well, launching boulders to respond to the fireballs that Seth launched back. The two seemed to recognize each other quite well, and as Seth got closer to the Earthshaper, he slowed as the Earthshaper did, largely because the closer they got the faster they could send flames and boulders at each other. Soon, they were both rolling about, sliding, launching, and raising stone shields, or unleashing an inferno.

The other earthshifter found himself busy with the hydromancer rather than Raven, but the Pyromancer saw Raven and figured an easy shot, focused their fire and launched it at Raven.

Spoiler: Mechanics of duels

I think it would be best to leave each of us to our own devices in this duel rather than myself having to type out each response to your particular move against your opponents. This is a LOT of freedom I am offering you, so I plan on seeing some creative writing and ideas, and not you just simply stomping over everyone as if they were all apprentice rank, though you can have one or two mixed in there. Keep it creative, and just show how your character deals with the combat situation, your ally in combat, and just what is happening.

Good luck, and don't worry, this won't last very long. >

 

[SkyeNeko]

"There's a lot of Earthshapers..." She noticed the other Hydromancer and made a face. As soon as the announcement was made she pulled up as much water as she could from the pool, tugging it back and forth for a few seconds. Having the advantage of being a pure Hydromancer, she came out with majority of it. Yes! She took most of it and made a cloud above them, keeping the rest just in case Drew couldn't protect her. She looked at the Earthshapers: they would be the biggest threat since lightning was easily nullified with a mound of dirt.

Partners? It's like an 8-way free for all! In order to get full control of the water Fei concentrated on the Hydro/Aero first. "Drew!" she motioned for him to attack the mage first.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Drew nodded, firing a few gusts of wind at the dual-wielder, trying to get him seperate from the Earthshaper so the other teams would try and pick them apart. "Fei, stay on the defensive. And watch you back for that Nightshade."

After a minute trying to formulate a strategy, he got close to Fei. "Fei, stay back. your water will keep us safe from the Pyromancer, and that dual-wielder seems even below your level in terms of water. It's the Nightshade that worries me. The fact that there are two Earthshapers could be a problem as well. Don't draw too much attention to us. Let them tire themselves out. Separate one group and let the others take care of the rest." He stayed close to her, a small whirlwind appearing around him as Drew kept himself ready to try and counter any attacks thrown their way. We might not need to use our trump card this early... there are still the other rounds...

 

[Fragrance of Mtn Dew]

"As ready as I'll ever be. I'll have to be sure to give a performance worthy of the Freecs name after all. So let's show them what we can do Cale!" Nydia said enthusiastically as the the fight began.

Nydia took a quick moment to examine her opponents. It was a fairly diverse spread, and although the elements she was up against there was no way to tell what their ranks were without seeing their abilities. Having thought it out, Nydia concluded that the other Lightdweller would be best dealt with quickly before he could start healing his partner. Taking a few steps forward, Nydia held out her hands and threw up a light screen. It wouldn't stop any attacks, but the glaring light would hide her from the enemies in front of her for a time. After hiding her movements, Nydia proceeded to swiftly fire 4 lasers through the screen in the direction of the other Lightdweller. She heard the rewarding sound of a cry of pain, letting her know that she had at least wounded her opponent somehow.

The screen died down to reveal her target clutching his right arm and leg, trying desperately to heal the wounds and get back in the fight while his partner covered him. That would knock them out of the fight for at least another few minutes. Unfortunately, the Pyromancers had gotten an idea similar to Nydia's and once her screen was down she was forced to quickly dodge blasts of flames. As she dodged, she stepped back near Cale and returned fire with a few more lasers that sadly did not hit their mark. "Well, so far so good..." She muttered.